WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 85

WELLINGTON WING WHISPERS.

By Peter Pan.

March 13. Dear Pasquin — Very little to chronicle this week. The circus has gone, Clara Butt has gone, John Fuller has gone, and the town this week has been theatrically lonesome. Fuller's Theatre Royal has been packed every night this week from, to foyer. The vaudevillians have had the theatrical firmament almost to themselves, the exception being the Royal Pictures. Ben Fuller has been submiting a fine programme, and the star item thereon has been Graham and Dent's sketch "A Bachelor's Dream." This has proved a great draw, and, undoubtedly, it is the finest sketch I have seen played in a vaudeville house. See it, for it is worth the time. Fred Graham, and hia accomplished wife are only on the Fuller circuit this time for 17 weeks, as Mother England calls. The Royal Pictures still prevail at His Majesty's Theatre, and the audiences each week grow in size. They are now entering the ninth week, and Manager Linley tells me that this week h:.s proved a record one. Arrangements have been, made for the latest in films, all of which are claimed to be new to the Dominion. Pollards' Juveniles were in town "Wednesday and Thursday, and left on the latter evening for the West Coast. Hugh Wilson, of Cooper's' Biograph, was aleo in town on Tuesday. He reports big business in the small towns in the north. "Our Boys" is to be staged by the Mountebank Amateur Dramatic Club on 24th, 25th, and- 26th inst. in aid of the Veterans' Home in, Auckland, and the Thespian Dramatic dub are making arrangements to play "Current Cash" and comedy on 14th and 15th July in aid of the same cause. Wirth's Circus is meeting with more misfortune. On Wednesday evening, at Carterton, the wind blew the tents down, doing damage to the extent of JB2OO. The performance had to be abandoned. Edwin Geach's Premier Dramatic Company made its first appearance at the Opera House last night, when Lingford Carson's "A Modern Adventuress" was produced for the first time in New Zealand. There was a very large audience, and the play apparently met with much appreciation. The company is headed by Miss Helene Burdette and Mr Harry Diver, and both these capable artists make successes of their parts. "The Adventuress" continues her crimson career until Wednesday, when "The Power of the Cross." described as a mystic story of a mystic being, will succeed it.